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Nicknamed "Hvaldimir" in a pun on the Norwegian word for whale, hval, and its purported ties to Moscow, the white beluga first appeared off the coast in Norway's far-northern Finnmark region in 2019.
Sign at Hammerfest Harbour in Norwegian and English warning against interfering with Hvaldimir. The whale appeared beginning on 26 April 2019 north of Hammerfest, off the island of Ingøya and near the village of Tufjord on the island of Rolvsøya, wearing a tight-fitting camera harness labelled "Equipment St. Petersburg", and rubbing against boats in apparent attempts to free himself.
A white beluga whale named “Hvaldimir,” first spotted in Norway not far from Russian waters with a harness that ignited rumors he may be a Moscow spy, has been found dead. The Norwegian public ...
The whale was found dead in Norway's Risavika Bay on Aug. 31 Beluga Whale Alleged to be a Russian ‘Spy’ May Have Been Killed by Gunshot Wounds, Animal Rights Groups Say Skip to main content
Hvaldimir, a white beluga whale that was rumored to be a Russian spy, has been found dead in waters off Norway. Beloved Russian 'spy' whale, who was anything but covert, is found dead off Norway ...
Russian scientists working on the White Whale Program place transmitters onto whales in Sea of Okhotsk The beluga is considered an excellent sentinel species (indicator of environment health and changes), because it is long-lived, at the top of the food web, bears large amounts of fat and blubber, relatively well-studied for a cetacean, and ...
A white beluga whale wearing a harness is seen off the coast of northern Norway, April 29, 2019. ... whose name is a pun featuring the Norwegian word for "whale" and Russian leader Vladimir Putin ...
He is one of the first adult all-white orca bulls discovered in the wild. [1] [2] Researchers attached to the Far East Russia Orca Project (FEROP), co-founded and co-directed by Alexander M. Burdin and Erich Hoyt, first spotted the orca when his six-foot (two-metre) dorsal fin broke the surface near the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea in ...